GZoom : http://earthcode.com/blog/2006/07/gzoom.html is a custom Google Maps control which allows you to zoom by dragging a rectangle on the map. Example use at SF Wireless Cafes site. Via http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2006/07/google_maps_api_update_gzoom.phtml

A history of drawing : http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/d/drawing.html

"... copied the user interface from Jef Poskanzer's ACME Mapper v1,and added historic topo maps to it (from http://www.garbuttny.us.), split up intoTerraserver-style tiles at 8 meters/pixel" ; http://www.rutlandtrail.org/mapview.cgi?lat=41.6009431103&long=-75.46646504&scale=13&theme=Historic&width=5&height=5&dot=Yes Via [Geowanking] Historic Topo Maps of Northeast US

Happy Planet World Map : http://www.happyplanetindex.org/map.htm Via http://catholicgauze.blogspot.com/2006/07/world-happiness-index.html

Hide and retrieve data in a bitmap graphic file : http://www.ar.cc.mn.us/blommel/CNET-1112/Labs06/Steganography.htm Algorithm for hiding messages in fractals : http://www.jsums.edu/~jsucus/research/workingpapers/docs/khadivi.pdf Also
An Analysis of Steganographic Techniques : http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/mitarbeiter/will/dlib_bookmarks/digital-watermarking/popa/popa.pdf

Amateur image analyst, Porcher Taylor, has been pursuing a self-funded effort to determine whether what he calls an "anomaly" on a glacier on Mount Ararat, in Turkey, is just a natural rock formation or a man-made object : http://www.gismonitor.com/news/newsletter/archive/archives.php?issue=20060720&style=web&length=full#ais (specifically, he thinks it might be the remnants of Noah's Ark, as described in the Bible's Book of Genesis)?

(TV show) Map Mashups : http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060310MashupFridayTVEdition.html

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL : http://www.infidelguy.com/ebooks/Beyond%20Good%20and%20Evil%20by%20Friedrich%20Nietzsche.htm BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, 1844-1900

The Eight Ways of Walking Qigong : http://www.egreenway.com/taichichuan/ttwck1.htm (will be published in installments beginning June, 2006).

Gallery / installation pics : http://www.magnoliaeditions.com/IndexFrame.html

An alternative (back-up?) to blogger : http://wordpress.org/

"Leaning into the unknown, you will see the direction emerging from the space within, in which an intensely present creative impulse meets one of the calls from the Field that are asking for your attention." - Truth of Impersonality
"You may delay, but time will not." - Benjamin Franklin
"... were the plan of the universe unrolled like a map at our feet, and the mind of man qualified to take in the whole scheme of creation at a glance." - Presidential Address to British Association, 1869.
"Seeing what everyone else is seeing, and yet thinking what no one else has thought." - http://www.chi2006.org/blogs/official/archives/2006/04/opening_plenary.html
"Use a compass, not a map; have a sense of direction—not a destination—and then set sail without plans." - Stephen Shapiro http://www.goalfree.com/